{"id":2688,"date":"2014-09-15T06:56:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T10:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2014-09-15T06:56:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T10:56:04","slug":"linux-mint-17-1-codenamed-rebecca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2688","title":{"rendered":"Linux Mint 17.1 codenamed &#8216;Rebecca&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Codenames on the 17.1 series were allowed to break the tradition. They won&#8217;t start with a Q, as they should, but with an R instead. It wasn&#8217;t easy to find a codename starting with Q initially, and with the move to LTS it&#8217;s getting harder and harder as the series might get a total of 4 or more releases.<\/p>\n<p>The first 17.x point release will be Linux Mint 17.1 codename &#8216;Rebecca&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca is of Hebrew origin and its meaning is &#8220;to bind&#8221;. The name was borne in the Bible by the wife of Isaac. It was also made famous since 1938 by the book from Daphne du Maurier entitled &#8220;Rebecca&#8221; and adapted into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its &#8220;R&#8221; name, Rebecca will share the same base as Qiana. Linux Mint 17 users will have the choice to upgrade or not, and that upgrade will be both easy and safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codenames on the 17.1 series were allowed to break the tradition. They won&#8217;t start with a Q, as they should, but with an R instead. It wasn&#8217;t easy to find a codename starting with Q initially, and with the move to LTS it&#8217;s getting harder and harder as the series might get a total of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}